This is netkit-ntalk-0.15. This package updates netkit-ntalk-0.11. If you're reading this off a CD, go right away and check the net archives for later versions and security fixes. Contents: talk Program for chatting with another user elsewhere. talkd Daemon to help set up talk sessions. Requires: Working compiler, libc, and kernel, and a recent ncurses. Security: This release contains no security fixes relative to netkit-ntalk-0.11. There are no serious security problems in netkit-ntalk-0.10; however, we do not recommend running it. Versions prior to NetKit-0.09 should not be used under any circumstances. Features: talk should now works correctly on multihomed machines (those with multiple IP addresses). talkd now contains code to hopefully detect and handle certain kinds of mangled talk packets that you may encounter. It also now has an option to log talk packets it doesn't understand; see the man page. Hopefully this will be useful if you run into interoperability problems. Other notes: Use of the "wordwrap.patch" patch is neither recommended nor discouraged. Apply it at your discretion. Installation: Do "./configure --help" and decide what options you want. The defaults should be suitable for most Linux systems. Then run the configure script. Do "make" to compile. Then (as root) do "make install". Save a backup copy of any mission-critical program in case the new one doesn't work, and so forth. We warned you. Bugs: Please make sure the header files in /usr/include match the libc version installed in /lib and /usr/lib. If you have weird problems this is the most likely culprit. Also, before reporting a bug, be sure you're working with the latest version. If something doesn't compile for you, fix it and send diffs. If you can't, send the compiler's error output. If it compiles but doesn't work, send as complete a bug report as you can. Patches and fixes are welcome, as long as you describe adequately what they're supposed to fix. Please, one patch per distinct fix. Please do NOT send the whole archive back or reindent the source. Be sure to send all correspondence in e-mail. Postings to netnews will not be seen due to the enormous volume. Please don't report known bugs (see the BUGS file(s)) unless you are including fixes. :-) Philip Copeland David A. Holland Al Howat netbug@ftp.uk.linux.org 31 July 1999